Security News

Dridex Email Attacks: Yet Another File Format (Reddit)
2015-08-18 23:23

Emergency IE Patch Fixes Vulnerability Under Attack (Threatpost)
2015-08-18 22:08

Microsoft released an out-of-band patch for an Internet Explorer vulnerability under attack.

RPC Portmapper Abused for DDoS Attack Reflection, Amplification (SecurityWeek)
2015-08-18 16:23

BitTorrent protocol family vulnerable to DRDoS attacks (SC Magazine)
2015-08-18 16:23

P2P File-Sharing in Hell: Exploiting BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks USENIX (Reddit)
2015-08-18 15:23

Reflection DDoS Attacks Abusing RPC Portmapper (Threatpost)
2015-08-18 14:00

Level 3 Communications has discovered a new type of reflection DDoS attack that takes advantage of RPC Portmapper to overwhelm networking services.

University of Virginia announces breach, says attack came from China (SC Magazine)
2015-08-17 22:23

Using BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-08-17 17:42

Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks.

Nation-state attack likely, say two-thirds of Black Hat respondents (SC Magazine)
2015-08-17 17:23

Five points of failure in recovering from an attack (Help Net Security)
2015-08-17 13:09

An over emphasis on defense is leaving the financial sector exposed to cyber attack. An increase in threat levels has seen the sector bolster defenses by focusing on detection and attack response but ...